RE: How stupid do you have to be?...
September 11, 2013 at 11:47 am
(This post was last modified: September 11, 2013 at 11:50 am by The Reality Salesman01.)
Drich, how things were back then are really quite moot. Your omniscient God told these people to do all this stuff, encouraged them to put it into his instruction manual, and never clarified, with absolute certainty, any justification for it being there other than divine command. This puts you in a pinch Drich, because you're not here defending the people of those times, you're defending the God which you believed commanded them to do these things. You believe this God to be all-knowing, and perfect, yet, you don't find it odd that he didn't foresee any conflict between a modern civilizied society and his condoning rape, slavery, and murder?
Couldn't God have avoided all this confusion with a discaimer? Something SO simple like: "These are just some things necessary for people to follow during the early BC years. Once you've established a working 3 branch government and have the technology to build satelites, you can pretty much throw all this stuff out."
Instead, we have Drich. We have Drich, and countless other people that are not privy to any information we dont' have, but simply insist that we ignore what God tells people in the old testament because Drich, and countless others don't think it's all that bad, and isn't intended for us.
If you honestly think this is the method an omnipotent, omniscient God thinks is the most efficient way to relay vital information, then I have no choice than to assume that A, you're an idiot, and B, your idea of a God is not only incompetent, but also completely detached from his creation that he supposedly cares so much for. If he had any interaction with modern man at all, he'd see that we've constructed much more effective forms of communication. Hey...Maybe that's why he killed Steve Jobs! God is clearly not too technologically savy and Jobs would be the perfect candidate to get him up to speed. Maybe he just needs help unlocking his iPhone? Of course, he could've just came down and asked for help, but then again, showing up also seems to be one of his weaknesses.
Couldn't God have avoided all this confusion with a discaimer? Something SO simple like: "These are just some things necessary for people to follow during the early BC years. Once you've established a working 3 branch government and have the technology to build satelites, you can pretty much throw all this stuff out."
Instead, we have Drich. We have Drich, and countless other people that are not privy to any information we dont' have, but simply insist that we ignore what God tells people in the old testament because Drich, and countless others don't think it's all that bad, and isn't intended for us.
If you honestly think this is the method an omnipotent, omniscient God thinks is the most efficient way to relay vital information, then I have no choice than to assume that A, you're an idiot, and B, your idea of a God is not only incompetent, but also completely detached from his creation that he supposedly cares so much for. If he had any interaction with modern man at all, he'd see that we've constructed much more effective forms of communication. Hey...Maybe that's why he killed Steve Jobs! God is clearly not too technologically savy and Jobs would be the perfect candidate to get him up to speed. Maybe he just needs help unlocking his iPhone? Of course, he could've just came down and asked for help, but then again, showing up also seems to be one of his weaknesses.
